And then go back and also add servlets jar from examples/lib. And maybe everything from dist/solrj-lib just because they are there, even if they are duplicates to some (all?) of the above mentioned libraries.
That's my point. A newbie would not know this. If there a script that has all that on the classpath, they will copy that and go on. But ask them to figure it out is a bit much. Again, I am not saying it is impossible, just that we are making it hard. And I am happy to help out with making it easier. I just don't know what the right thing to do actually is here (e.g. with ESS). Regards, Alex. Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Michael Sokolov <msoko...@safaribooksonline.com> wrote: > If I were starting from a solr distribution (ie not maven), I would extract > everything from the solr.war in WEB-INF/lib and WEB-INF/classes, and put > that on my classpath. > > -Mike > > > On 01/28/2014 06:29 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: >> >> Thanks Mike, >> >> Sounds like Maven approach worked, I haven't tried that. But without >> Maven, it is much harder. Like I said (in the second email of the >> thread) the relevant jars are all over the distribution including some >> inside the .war file. And the only way to figure it out is to run the >> client over and over again and keep adding jars until exceptions go >> away. And huntings jars is fairly complicated for a beginner. >> >> Perhaps the instruction should just say, use Maven and stop at that. I >> can live with that, especially if we do that as a bundled example, so >> non-Maven people don't have to figure the way to build those poms >> themselves. >> >> Regards, >> Alex. >> Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ >> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch >> - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all >> at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD >> book) >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Michael Sokolov >> <msoko...@safaribooksonline.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 01/28/2014 11:55 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: >>>> >>>> As to ESS, like I mentioned, the classpath issue seem to be quite a >>>> challenge. Again, perhaps not something that shows up during the >>>> testing because the directory layout during testing is rather >>>> different from the end-user's layout. >>>> >>> I'm not sure what "the classpath issue" is? We use ESS in our tests; >>> it's >>> very nice not to have spin up a separate process in order to run unit >>> tests >>> that require solr. To do this, we include the solr and solrj maven >>> artifacts as dependencies, and everything works. No classpath issues. I >>> wouldn't say the classpath is "minimal" -- I am sure there are classes, >>> even >>> whole jars, that we could strip out, but is that really a major concern? >>> >>> -Mike > >
